Earlier today I needed to iterate over a string 2 characters at a time for parsing a string formatted like "+c-R+D-E" (there are a few extra letters).
I ended up with this, which works, but it looks ugly. I ended up commenting what it was doing because it felt non-obvious. It almost seems pythonic, but not quite.
# Might not be exact, but you get the idea, use the step
# parameter of range() and slicing to grab 2 chars at a time
s = "+c-R+D-e"
for op, code in (s[i:i+2] for i in range(0, len(s), 2)):
print op, code
Are there some better/cleaner ways to do this?
解决方案
Dunno about cleaner, but there's another alternative:
for (op, code) in zip(s[0::2], s[1::2]):
print op, code
A no-copy version:
from itertools import izip, islice
for (op, code) in izip(islice(s, 0, None, 2), islice(s, 1, None, 2)):
print op, code